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Disable AI assisted chat in iTerm2Solved

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Oct 03, 2025

Hello,

I have macOS devices enrolled in Hexnode UEM, and we are using iTerm2 instead of the default Terminal app (the domain is com.googlecode.iterm2). All devices currently have AI-assisted chat enabled, but due to security reasons, we want to disable AI assist in iTerm2. We have over 100 macOS devices, so we hope to achieve this via a script or configuration deployment from Hexnode. I have tried a few scripts and config profiles, but they didn’t produce the desired result. Does anyone know how this can be done?

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ben_clarke

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Oct 05, 2025

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Hi,

You can disable AI assisted chat in iTerm2 using a configuration profile. Save the following code as a .mobileconfig file and deploy it to your macOS devices via Hexnode’s Deploy Custom Configuration policy.

Once the policy is successfully applied, quit and reopen iTerm2, the AI-assisted features will be disabled.

Note: Replace REPLACE_WITH_UUID with actual UUIDs before deploying the profile.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
  <key>PayloadType</key><string>Configuration</string>
  <key>PayloadVersion</key><integer>1</integer>
  <key>PayloadDisplayName</key><string>iTerm2 — Disable AI features</string>
  <key>PayloadIdentifier</key><string>com.mdm.iterm2.disable-ai</string>
  <key>PayloadUUID</key><string>5D0C805B-A89E-40D6-9CED-EAC23D22F3A1</string>
  <key>PayloadScope</key><string>System</string>
  <key>PayloadRemovalDisallowed</key><true></true>
  <key>PayloadContent</key>
  <array>
    <dict>
      <key>PayloadType</key><string>com.apple.ManagedClient.preferences</string>
      <key>PayloadVersion</key>
	      <integer>1</integer>
      <key>PayloadIdentifier</key>
      	<string>com.mdm.iterm2.disable-ai.managed</string>
      <key>PayloadUUID</key>
      	<string>27B01A39-9EBD-4AE4-8245-9277C5754CBF</string>
      <key>PayloadDisplayName</key>
      	<string>Managed Preferences for iTerm2</string>
      <key>PayloadContent</key>
      </dict><dict>
        <key>com.googlecode.iterm2</key>
        </dict><dict>
          <key>Forced</key>
          <array>
            <dict>
              <key>mcx_preference_settings</key>
              </dict><dict>
                <key>GenerativeAIAllowed</key>
                  <false></false>
              </dict>
            </array></dict>
          </array>
        </dict>
      </plist>

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">

<dict>

<key>PayloadType</key><string>Configuration</string>

<key>PayloadVersion</key><integer>1</integer>

<key>PayloadDisplayName</key><string>iTerm2 — Disable AI features</string>

<key>PayloadIdentifier</key><string>com.mdm.iterm2.disable-ai</string>

<key>PayloadUUID</key><string>5D0C805B-A89E-40D6-9CED-EAC23D22F3A1</string>

<key>PayloadScope</key><string>System</string>

<key>PayloadRemovalDisallowed</key><true></true>

<key>PayloadContent</key>

<array>

<dict>

<key>PayloadType</key><string>com.apple.ManagedClient.preferences</string>

<key>PayloadVersion</key>

<key>PayloadIdentifier</key>

<string>com.mdm.iterm2.disable-ai.managed</string>

<key>PayloadUUID</key>

<key>PayloadDisplayName</key>

<string>Managed Preferences for iTerm2</string>

<key>PayloadContent</key>

</dict><dict>

<key>com.googlecode.iterm2</key>

</dict><dict>

<key>Forced</key>

<array>

<dict>

<key>mcx_preference_settings</key>

</dict><dict>

<key>GenerativeAIAllowed</key>

</dict>

</array></dict>

</array>

</dict>

</plist>

If you encounter any issues while implementing this, feel free to reach out.

Best regards,
Ben Clarke
Hexnode UEM

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